Boston's Blessing Day

Yesterday was such a fun day! Scott did a great job blessing Boston! After church was over we went to my house and had dinner with my parents, Kristen, Jessica and Justin, and their two boys Ethan and Alex. Then we went to Scott's house and hung out with his family and a few friends.

Here are the pictures from yesterday.

My Favorite Picture!!

He's still learning how to smile, but this was probably one of the best smiles we've seen and we got it on camera!






Handsome little man

Another cute smile!! What a stud!

Lindsay Thacker meeting Boston for the first time

Boston and Brendan (Nate and Lindsay Thacker's baby). Brendan is just a little bit bigger.

Grandma and Grandpa Fitzgerald!

She looks WAY too good to have 12 grandkids!

Boston wanting to be done with pictures and eat. And Scott looking really cute.

Sweet Aunt Jill

Me and my sister Jessica with her second baby Alex

Boston and Mommy

Boston and his cousin Alex. They are 2 1/2 months apart

I'll hold you up Alex. Don't worry.

This one makes me laugh!

Nap time

Four generations. My grandma from Vermont is here to visit for a few weeks. It was fun to have her be able to come to Boston's blessing!

Handsome boys!!

Grandpa Barry and Boston

Grandma Billings holding Boston for the first time!

Boston did really good during his blessing. He was wide awake for the whole thing and just stared at the ceiling. Right after he fell asleep on mom's shoulder for the rest of sacrament meeting.

I'm Still in High School Apparently

I went to the grocery store tonight after my run, and I had a funny conversation with the bagger boy.

Bagger: "Do you run?"

Me: "Ya I do."

Bagger: "Oh cool. So what high school was your track meet at today?"

Me: "Oh I'm not in high school anymore. I graduated."

Bagger: "Oh, so your in college now?"

Me: "No I actually graduated from college too."

Bagger: "Oh wow, you look young."

I thought it was pretty funny. I should have told him I had a baby too.

Boston and Lexi

We had a fun lunch today for Heidi's birthday at Grandma Ruth's house! After lunch we had fun taking pictures of the newest cousins in the family, Boston and Lexi. They are two weeks apart. As you can see by the pictures, Lexi is dainty and cute, and Boston is sturdy and studly!

We tried to take some pictures with Boston's arm around Lexi, but it didn't really work. Boston was mad and by the look on Lexi's face I think she thought it was lame.

Champions!

Congratulations to Scott!!

His Provo City basketball team won the championship game last night!

2 Months!

Boston had his two month check-up today! I knew he was getting bigger, but I was still a little surprised when the nurse told me he weighed 12 lbs. 1 oz. He has gained 5 pounds since his two-week appointment! He is 23 inches long now, which is three inches longer than he was at his 2 week appointment. His head has also grown a couple inches. The doctor said he is in the 60th percentile for height and weight. I can't believe he weighs almost twice as much as he did when he was born!

Boston had to get a couple shots today for immunization, and he did really well with it. He is such a tough little guy. I think I hated them more than he did. I had never heard his "pain" cry before and it was SO SAD!! He didn't cry for very long though because luckily he was hungry and I distracted him with a bottle that I had brought with me. His crying was NOTHING compared to some of the other babies I could hear in there. It's a good thing too, because I probably would have cried too if Boston would have cried like some of those other babies did. I'm a really big wuss when it comes to hearing him cry.

Here are some pictures of Boston to compare so you can see how much he's changed the past two months!

9 days old
Look at those skinny arms and legs!
It's funny to compare them to his two-month pictures.

One month old.

Two months old! He even has his eyes open for this one!
Look a his chubby belly!

He's starting to be awake more and play a little bit!

He is so dang cute!

I love his lips when he is sleeping! He slept through the night last night for the first time!! He slept from about 11:30 or 12:00 to about 6:30! Yahoo!

Sunday Adventures

Our first adventure today was taking Boston to church for the first time!

It was nice to be able to go to church with Scott again and stay the whole time! After Sunday School Scott and I were "arguing" over whether Boston got to go to Relief Society or Priesthood because we both wanted him. Scott is too sweet and let me win that argument. During Relief Society I experienced a couple adventures with him, but I learned from all of them, and hopefully I'll do better next time.

#1-Next time I take him out of his car seat when he starts to cry a little I will be A LOT more careful that his shoes don't catch the end of my dress and flash my garments to all the girls in the Relief Society. (I sit in front of everyone because I'm in the presidency)

#2-Make sure the cap that goes over the bottle nipple isn't full of milk so it doesn't spill all over my dress when I take it off. (This happened right after I managed to pull my dress back down over my garments)

#3-Make sure I have a burp cloth ready at all times so the girl next to me doesn't have to let me borrow hers after I spill milk on my dress, and then grab mine for me out of my diaper bag behind my chair.

#4-Take Boston out before he starts farting really loud, or at least try not to be embarrassed and smile when he does fart because the only people that can really hear it anyways are the girls in the front row and the presidency. It just feels so weird because I'm up there in front everyone, so it's hard not to feel awkward when he is making those noises!

#5-Bring some perfume or something to cover up the sour milk smell when he throws up all over my dress. (Thankfully I was in the mother's room for that one)

Other than those little things, it went great taking him to church! He is such a good baby! He just slept the whole time until there was about thirty minutes left of church, and that's when I learned from all those little adventures.

He looked like a little stud in his cute church outfit. Here is a picture of him with me after church. He's getting so big! Scott went to put his Michael Jordan beanie on him yesterday and it didn't fit! We take him to the doctor this Frday for his two-month check-up, so we will find out how much he weighs then!




Our second adventure was that Scott and I both spoke in sacrament meeting today on agency! It went really well for both of us, and now I can say I'm officially an adult because I have NEVER spoken as an adult speaker in sacrament meeting before! The last time I spoke was one of those two-minute youth talks when I was in Young Women's. I don't know how I managed to go five years without getting asked to speak. Scott and I actually did get asked to speak while we were in Texas, but it was for the Sunday that we planned to come home, so we got out of that one.

I was really surprised that it was not as scary as I thought it would be. When I was younger I was absolutely TERRIFIED of speaking in public or being in any kind of spotlight. I am STILL like that, but I realized today that I have grown out of some of that terror because I didn't cry this time when Scott told me we were speaking in sacrament meeting. I remember I used to cry when I was younger when I would have to speak in sacrament meeting. I would say yes to the member of the bishopric, and then I would hang up the phone and cry.

I also remember when I was a sophomore in college and I got called to be a Gospel Doctrine teacher- I cried then too. Looking back on it now it's a pretty funny story. That time I didn't even wait until I got home to cry. I cried right in front of the member of the bishopric as he was giving me the call. I really couldn't help it. Poor guy, I probably made him feel so bad. I was all teary-eyed as I was telling him that I was willing to except this call, but he knew they weren't tears of joy.

I'm definitely no where near overcoming my fear of public speaking, but I just tried to have a better attitude about it, and look at it a different way this time. I told myself that it would be kind of like finishing a marathon. I like to do hard things because I feel good when I'm done, so I looked at it like that (and prayed A LOT), and then speaking in sacrament meeting turned out to not be so bad!